Moving heavy freight with pallet truck

I can understand the company reasoning for this. But it is just flat out asinine! I can't begin to tell you the number of or different types of fork lifts that I have used here in Dixie.

 

Yeah, I get it. Insurance reasons to protect both the customer and the shipper blah blah blah blah. All corporate BS politics and legalism. Whatever happened to common sense where the risk of a workers comp claim is much higher than a potential accident with an employee using none-company asset/equipment?

And yeah, I agree with you Don... this whole thing is super stupid

 

Something else to think about with a lift gate. NEVER TRUST THEM! I was in my early 20's, working in a supermarket. (In between "real jobs.") We had a Knudson Dairy truck come into unload. Driver got the lift gate all loaded up, stepped back into the trailer off the lift gate, and just like that, something gave way, and the lift gate fell. Nobody was injured, but it was just luck that they were not.

 

Can not walk on ICE Im from the desert, Yes had surgery 4 months ago, 3 anchors later, grinding, and stuff. Surgeon says I had a ACL repair with the full Monte.

 

I have had the same thing happen to me I worked ltl for 14years I had to pull around some that weigh over 3000 with a manual jack I found sometimes if you have a little incline try to park on it use gravity to your advantage you might also want to think of getting 60 feet of tow strap rated for the weight to if you get to a stop with a real heavy pallet and they have a forklift you can hook the strap to the pallet and the forklift and have them pull it out or just ask the customer if they can help you push it out but some companys have policys about customers climbing up into trailer or for instance if your prior stop has a dock and a forklift ask them if they can move it back to the tail for you a lot of times they will

 

I understand your concern but that's what your company pays the drivers to do.If you feel this is too strenuous then I would be looking for something else.In time your company may suggest the same thing.I know electric jacks are the best but there is also the cost.If you don't unload your freight who's going to unload it?Are'nt all drivers suppose to unload the trailers rather then the customers?

 

Hi patty, um, that's what I kind of thought too, even if it means taking a couple of layers off and putting them on another pallet. If it was something like a large piece of equipment, like a punch press, clearly they need to help.

 

I use to move pallets of product all day everyday at a chocolate factory 3 flights up down up down with a manual jack.Many of the product was huge boxes of slabs of chocolate,clusters, candy pretzels you name it so I know how hard it can be.But that was part of my job and what I signed up for.I would suggest to the op to find something else that doesn't involve physical labor that would in time cause more stress of his wrist.[QUOTE="semi" retired;4236642]Hi patty, um, that's what I kind of thought too, even if it means taking a couple of layers off and putting them on another pallet. If it was something like a large piece of equipment, like a punch press, clearly they need to help.[/QUOTE]

 

MMM, chocolate clusters. I used to pick up at Brach's candy in Chicago, and in their breakroom, they had all kinds of candy you could take. Same at Entemanns in Chicago( I think they're gone now) You could take stuff there too.